Book
How to be a good wife
Record details
- ISBN: 1250018196 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781250018199 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1250018196 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250018199 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250018199 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1250018196 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
275 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in Great Britain by Picador [2013], an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited"--Title page verso. |
| Summary, etc.: | "In the tradition of Emma Donoghue's Room and S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to remember her life before Hector. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife--as advised by a dog-eared manual given to her by Hector's aloof mother on their wedding day. But now, something is changing. Small things seem off. A flash of movement in the corner of her eye, elapsed moments that she can't recall. Visions of a blonde girl in the darkness that only Marta can see. Perhaps she is starting to remember--or perhaps her mind is playing tricks on her. As Marta's visions persist and her reality grows more disjointed, it's unclear if the danger lies in the world around her, or in Marta herself. The girl is growing more real every day, and she wants something"-- |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Wives Fiction Visions Fiction Mind and reality Fiction |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF CHA (Text) | 33260000099649 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC CHAPMAN, E (Text) | 36123001440815 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | FIC CHAPMAN (Text) | 34025131592443 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | FIC CHAPMAN (Text) | 37538128143514 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Slater Public Library - Griswold | F CHA (Text) | 31252129482006 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Somers Public Library | FIC CHA (Text) | 34042124172323 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Terryville Public Library | F CHA (Text) | 34028128772879 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Thompson Public Library | Chapman (Text) | 34038118604503 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Tolland Public Library | F CHA (Text) | 34051129532886 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Wolcott Public Library | FIC CHAPMAN, E. HO (Text) | 34031127102684 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
